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$88.02 -3.18 (-3.49%)
Closing price 08/6/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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WLDN vs. STRL, MPTI, SEZL, QBTS, WSC, FTDR, HRI, STNE, GLOB, and HNGE

Should you be buying Willdan Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Willdan Group include Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), M-tron Industries (MPTI), Sezzle (SEZL), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), WillScot (WSC), Frontdoor (FTDR), Herc (HRI), StoneCo (STNE), Globant (GLOB), and Hinge Health (HNGE).

Willdan Group vs. Its Competitors

Willdan Group (NASDAQ:WLDN) and Sterling Infrastructure (NASDAQ:STRL) are related companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and profitability.

Willdan Group currently has a consensus target price of $79.50, suggesting a potential downside of 9.68%. Sterling Infrastructure has a consensus target price of $355.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.56%. Given Sterling Infrastructure's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sterling Infrastructure is more favorable than Willdan Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Willdan Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Sterling Infrastructure
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

72.3% of Willdan Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Sterling Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of Willdan Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Sterling Infrastructure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Willdan Group has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sterling Infrastructure has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Sterling Infrastructure had 21 more articles in the media than Willdan Group. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Sterling Infrastructure and 8 mentions for Willdan Group. Sterling Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Willdan Group's score of 0.84 indicating that Sterling Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Willdan Group
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Sterling Infrastructure
13 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Sterling Infrastructure has a net margin of 13.33% compared to Willdan Group's net margin of 4.08%. Sterling Infrastructure's return on equity of 27.93% beat Willdan Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Willdan Group4.08% 13.74% 6.98%
Sterling Infrastructure 13.33%27.93%11.18%

Sterling Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than Willdan Group. Sterling Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Willdan Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Willdan Group$565.80M2.26$22.57M$1.6952.08
Sterling Infrastructure$2.12B4.30$257.46M$8.5634.98

Summary

Sterling Infrastructure beats Willdan Group on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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WLDN vs. The Competition

MetricWilldan GroupBUSINESS SVCS IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.32B$5.99B$20.65B$9.47B
Dividend YieldN/A3.13%2.82%4.17%
P/E Ratio52.0823.0024.8323.99
Price / Sales2.261.8942.6796.71
Price / Cash29.4516.0828.1758.51
Price / Book5.314.935.685.58
Net Income$22.57M$158.88M$196.72M$265.35M
7 Day Performance3.19%0.76%-0.69%-0.07%
1 Month Performance20.15%1.40%-1.71%1.76%
1 Year Performance142.88%55.62%36.88%25.39%

Willdan Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WLDN
Willdan Group
3.7113 of 5 stars
$88.02
-3.5%
$79.50
-9.7%
+142.1%$1.32B$565.80M52.081,761Analyst Forecast
STRL
Sterling Infrastructure
2.8376 of 5 stars
$271.74
+3.3%
$265.00
-2.5%
+182.1%$8.00B$2.12B31.753,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
MPTI
M-tron Industries
1.9172 of 5 stars
$44.21
+3.5%
N/AN/A$124.60M$49.01M16.19300Upcoming Earnings
SEZL
Sezzle
2.4937 of 5 stars
$156.99
+9.0%
$108.28
-31.0%
+991.3%$4.79B$271.13M53.04540Positive News
QBTS
D-Wave Quantum
2.3021 of 5 stars
$17.21
+5.1%
$16.70
-3.0%
+1,918.9%$4.79B$8.83M-28.683Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
WSC
WillScot
4.2595 of 5 stars
$25.09
-0.9%
$36.00
+43.5%
-29.3%$4.62B$2.40B41.824,500Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
FTDR
Frontdoor
3.0287 of 5 stars
$58.49
+0.7%
$54.00
-7.7%
+27.3%$4.28B$1.84B18.932,120Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
HRI
Herc
2.421 of 5 stars
$114.13
-0.4%
$144.60
+26.7%
-14.1%$3.81B$3.57B132.707,600
STNE
StoneCo
3.8264 of 5 stars
$12.77
+1.6%
$15.07
+18.0%
+10.7%$3.60B$2.46B-16.3716,793
GLOB
Globant
4.8494 of 5 stars
$81.93
+2.7%
$165.69
+102.2%
-57.3%$3.51B$2.42B24.2431,280Upcoming Earnings
HNGE
Hinge Health
N/A$48.27
+7.4%
$49.86
+3.3%
N/A$3.51BN/A0.001,514Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:WLDN) was last updated on 8/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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